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Airplane Contrails and Global Warming
According to a recent study, the airplanes contrails contribute more to global warming than the CO2 emitted by an aircraft. Moreover, the...
01 Jul 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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It has been reported that Shimla, Himachal Pradesh and Udupi and Mangaluru in coastal Karnataka are on the verge of becoming Tier 2 cities which...
29 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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According to the data presented by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the Lok Sabha, ozone was reported as a prominent...
29 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Ice protects the Earth and oceans by reflecting excess heat back into space. However, human activity, especially since the industrial revolution...
27 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Joint Effort to Conserve Wildlife at Bandipur
National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has convened an inter-state meeting of senior forest personnel from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala...
26 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
A recent study has found that the normalized difference vegetation index does not yield a reliable estimate of food abundance for elephants in...
26 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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The production of cement is a cause of 7 % of global carbon dioxide emissions, more than what comes from all the trucks in the world. Cement’s...
25 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Water Vulnerable Megacities in India
Four Indian cities, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi have been ranked among the top 20 megacities in the world facing high levels of water...
25 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Climate Change Impacting Small Island Developing States
The United Nation (UN) in its report on World Population Prospects 2019 has warned that many Small Island Developing States (SIDS) may fail to...
21 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed every year on 17th June. India for the first time will host the 14th session of the...
18 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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The Group of 20 (G20) environment ministers, on 15th June, 2019, agreed to adopt a new implementation framework for actions to tackle the issue of...
17 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Indian scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), an international conservation charity, and University College London (UCL) have...
14 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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The World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) study has revealed that people worldwide could be ingesting five grams of microscopic plastic particles...
13 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Air Pollution and Life Expectancy
An environment think tank Centre for Science and Environment in its report “At the crossroad” has said that Life expectancy in India has...
12 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Scientists from the National Centre for Integrated Pest Management (NCIPM) and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have conducted...
12 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has declared an area of 1km around the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary in Gurugram and Faridabad as...
07 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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India’s “First” Emissions Trading System for Particulate Pollution (PM)
Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has initiated the programme for market based trading system to reduce air pollution in Surat, Gujarat...
06 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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World Environment Day is observed on the 5th of June every year for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment. Since...
06 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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India Backs Dhanauri for Ramsar Site Tag
The Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate change has asked Uttar Pradesh forest department,to propose Dhanauri in Greater Noida as a wetland of...
06 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Vulnerability assessment study conducted in Oussudu lake, Puducherry had shown concern over rising plastic pollution in water bodies. The report had...
04 Jun 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
